48 REPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



[Inclosnre.] 



Oil the 2d clay of March, 1867, Congress passed the following reso- 

 lution (Stat, at Large, vol. 14, p. 573): 



^^ Resolved by the ISenate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States in Congress assembled, Tiiat fifty copies of all documents here- 

 after printed by order of either House of Congress, and fifty copies ad- 

 ditional of all documents printed in excess of the usual number, together 

 with fifty copies of each publication issued by any Department or 

 Bureau of the Government, be placed at the disposal of the Joint Com- 

 mittee on the Library, who shall exchange the same, throujih the agency 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, for such works published in foreign 

 countries, and especially by foreign Governments, as may be deemed 

 by said committee an equivalent ; said works to be deposited in the 

 Library of Congress." 



This resolution provides, as i^lainly and distinctly expressed, for three 

 times fifty copies of certain official publications, or, rather, for fifty 

 copies each of three different and distinct issues into which the publi- 

 cations of the United States Government may be classed: 



I. The Congressional issue, consisting of series of journals, reports of 

 committees, miscelhineous documents, and executive documents. 



II. The annual reports of the Exeeutive Departments and Bureaus of 

 the Government. 



III. The memoirs, monographs, and special reports published by the 

 Executive Departments and Bureaus of the Government. 



Of the first issue (the Congressional), the usual number printed is, as 

 prescribed in section 3792 Revised Statutes, "fifteen hundred and fifty 

 copies of any document ordered by Congress," etc., increased to nineteen 

 hundred, which includes the installments for distribution by the Con- 

 gressional Library and for exchange in foreign countries. 



Section 3799 provides that " of the documents printed by order of 

 either House of Congress there shall be printed and bound fifty addi- 

 tional copies for the purpose of exchange in foreign countries." 



The second series is formed by the "extra copies" ordered to be 

 printed by Congress in addition to the usual number, and represent the 

 annual report of the Executive Dei)artnients and Bureaus of the Gov- 

 ernment, Reports on Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Navigation, Com- 

 mercial Relations, etc., and as such form each an independent series of 

 Government publications. 



Relative to this issue, section 3796 Revised Statutes provides : " The 

 Congressional Printer shall, when so directed by the eToint Committee 

 on the Library, print in addition to the usual number either fifty or one 

 hundred copies, as he may be directed, of all documents printed by 

 either House of Congress or by any Department or Bureau of the Gov- 

 ernment." 



Resolution No. 72, second session Fortieth Congress (approved July 25, 

 1868), a resolution to carry into effect the resolution approved March 2, 

 1867, providing for the exchange of certain public documents, specifies : 

 "That the Congressional Printer, whenever he shall be so directed by 

 the Joint Committee on the Library, be, and he hereby is, directed to 

 print fifty cojiies in addition to the regular number of all documents 

 hereafter printed by order of either House of Congress, or by order of 

 any Department or Bureau of the Government, and whenever he shall 

 ^be so directed by the Joint Committee on the Library, one hundred 

 copies additional of all documents ordered to be printed in excess of the 

 usual number; said fifty or one hundred copies to be delivered to the 



